Comets

4072 TRACKED

Ice and dust on long orbits, growing a tail only when the Sun gets close enough to boil them.

RANKED LISTS

167P/CINEOS — 33.09 km

ALL CLASSES PARABOLIC COMET · 1763 JUPITER-FAMILY COMET · 846 COMET · 731 HYPERBOLIC COMET · 520 HALLEY-TYPE COMET · 111 ENCKE-TYPE COMET · 79 CHIRON-TYPE COMET · 22

C/2011 O1 (LINEAR)

C/2011 N3 (SOHO)

Hyperbolic comet

0.005 AU · Sun

C/2011 N2 (McNaught)

C/2011 M1 (LINEAR)

Hyperbolic comet

0.896 AU · Sun

C/2011 L6 (Boattini)

Hyperbolic comet

6.788 AU · Sun

C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

Hyperbolic comet

0.302 AU · Sun

C/2011 L3 (McNaught)

Hyperbolic comet

1.924 AU · Sun

C/2011 L2 (McNaught)

Hyperbolic comet

1.943 AU · Sun

C/2011 L1 (McNaught)

Halley-type comet

11.04 AU · Sun

C/2011 KP36 (Spacewatch)

Jupiter-family comet

38.41 AU · Sun

C/2011 K1 (Schwartz-Holvorcem)

Hyperbolic comet

3.377 AU · Sun

C/2011 J3 (LINEAR)

Halley-type comet

19.56 AU · Sun

C/2011 J2 (LINEAR)

Hyperbolic comet

3.443 AU · Sun

C/2011 J2-C (LINEAR)

Parabolic comet

3.443 AU · Sun

C/2011 J2-B (LINEAR)

Hyperbolic comet

3.443 AU · Sun

C/2011 G1 (McNaught)

Hyperbolic comet

2.155 AU · Sun

C/2011 F1 (LINEAR)

Hyperbolic comet

1.819 AU · Sun

C/2011 C3 (Gibbs)

C/2011 C1 (McNaught)

344.2 AU · Sun

C/2011 A3 (Gibbs)